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I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Richard Feynman

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Belief Ignorance Science
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Accomplishment Expectation Failure Live Mistake People Responsibility Thinking Yourself
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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Human Perfection Truth
I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
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Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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Goodness Myself Power Result Thinking Value
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
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Serious Yourself
That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
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Education Goodness Learning Problem
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Confidence Inspirational Right Yourself
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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Authority Decision Goodness Ideas
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
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Deep Heaven Hell Man Spiritual
I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.
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Death Hate Myself
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
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Fools Nature Success Technology
I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Live Myself Philosophy Thinking Wrong
Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough
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Deep Yourself
You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
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Destroy Fun Life Thinking Yourself
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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Achievement Compassionate Human Laughter Understand
Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.
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Education Intelligence Yourself
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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Science Yourself
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Animal Philosophy Science
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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Different Evidence Human Science
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Expectation Failure Mistake Myself Responsibility
The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.
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Himself People Reading
I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Knowledge Learning Myself People Understand Weakness
It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
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Beautiful Science Smart Theory Wrong Yourself
Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.
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Important Love Science
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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Improvement Ourselves Possible Quick Wrong
Everything is made of atoms.
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